MARSH, Thomas Cecil
| Service Number: | 3518 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Greta, New South Wales, Australia, 17 September 1887 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal miner |
| Died: | Natural causes, Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 7 May 1933, aged 45 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-03. 43. |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3518, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 1 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3518, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3518, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Benalla, Fremantle | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Imprisoned Bullecourt (First), GSW leg and back | |
| 15 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3518, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), 5th MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
90 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 9th May 1933, Private Thomas Cecil Marsh, 16th Battalion (Reg No-3518), coal miner from Coombes Street, Collie, Western Australia and corner of Croudace and Dixon Streets, Lambton, N.S.W., father of three, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 45. METHODIST 4-03. 43.
Born at Greta, New South Wales on the 17th September 1887 to James and Maria Ellen Marsh (PRITCHARD) of Coombes Street, Collie, Western Australia; husband of Matilda Marsh nee Wood (married 1920, West Wallsend, N.S.W., died 29.11.1957, age 57, sleeping here), Thomas enlisted on the 8th August 1915 at Blackboy Hill, Western Australia.
Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st November 1915.
Admitted to hospital 10.4.1916 (eczema), 1.5.1916 (influenza), 27.1.1917 (eczema).
Wounded in action - 11.4.1917 (GSW leg and back, First Battle of Bullecourt).
Reported missing, 11.4.1917.
Reported Prisoner of War, 11.4.1917.
The 314th Casualty list, WOUNDED AND PRISONER OF WAR, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, Thomas Cecil Marsh, Collie.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134866902 - report that Thomas's sister, from Dawson Street, Cooks Hill, has been notified that her brother has been wounded and is a Prisoner of War.
Repatriated to England 9.1.1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article210431161 - report that Thomas had been repatriated to England.
Granted leave from the 13.1.1919 to the 20.2.1919.
Thomas returned home about May 1919, being discharged on the 15th July 1919.
Mr. Marsh’s name has been inscribed on the Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, and probably inscribed on a Western Australian War Memorial and Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Thomas’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Mr. Marsh has not been officially commemorated, so I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite, and being a Prisoner of War should automatically qualify.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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